Broadcom97425/BCM7425-Qt5-eglfs

Building AppLibs/RefSW for Qt

1. Locate document named “BroadcomReferencePlatformSetup.pdf” (Usually this will be inside a tar ball named on the lines of refsw_release_<chip-name>_<date>.tgz)
2. Follow the instructions in “BroadcomReferencePlatformSetup.pdf” to setup the Linux build machine
3. Locate document named “AppLibsInstallationBuildGuide.pdf” (Usually this will be inside a tar ball named on the lines of applibs_release_<date>.tgz)
4. Follow the instructions in “AppLibsInstallationBuildGuide.pdf” to build Applibs

Qt5 eglfs/QPA

Building Qt 5

1. Obtain qt-5.0.0 from git [qt.io] (follow instructions in “Getting the source code”)
2. Obtain 7425 specific files from qt-platform-mkspecs git [gitorious.org] (look for folder “5.0”)
3. Copy folder named “linux-nxs-mipsel-uclibc-g++” from 7425 specific repo to <qt-5.0.0-git>/qtbase/mkspecs
4. Set following environment variables in the shell before configuring/building Qt,
   for example,
   
5. Apply patch “7425-eglfs.patch” from 7425 specific repo to <qt-5.0.0-git>/src
   
6. Configure Qt in qtbase folder as,
   
7. After the build succeeds set following environment variables before building any opengl Qt Apps,
   

<b>NOTE:</b> Before executing any Qt applications on target copy “qt-installs/qt5” on target at usr/local on target file system

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